U+3231 "㈱" Parenthesized Ideograph Stock Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
㈱
U+3231 "㈱" Parenthesized Ideograph Stock is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) symbol that represents the Japanese character for "stock" or "share," enclosed within parentheses, and is primarily used in East Asian typography, particularly in Japanese contexts, to abbreviate the term "kabu" (株) in financial or corporate settings, such as in stock market listings or company names, where it serves as a compact notation for the concept of a share or a joint stock company.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3231 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Parenthesized Ideograph Stock |
| Block | Enclosed CJK Letters and Months |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "(" U+0028 Left Parenthesis "株" U+682A CJK Unified Ideograph-# ")" U+0029 Right Parenthesis |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㈱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㈱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x88 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3231 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003231 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3231 |